Door-fastener.



H.YV. JUNGST L H. G. KENNEDY.

DOOR FASTENER.

APPucATloN FILED AuG.7.191e.

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HOMER V. J UN' GST AND HARRY G. KENNEDY, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIG-NORS vT0 THE KENNEDY WAGON COMPANY, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, A, CORPORATION or WASHINGTON.

DOOR-FASTENER.

Learnit.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 7, 1916. Serial No. 113,492.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, HOMER V. JUNGST and HARRY G. KENNEDY, citizens of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Door-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of door fasteners known as hasps; and its object is the improvement of devices of this character for securing a door in a more firm condition when fastened and enable Ithe door or doors to which the invention is applied to be quickly secured or released.

The invention is especiall. adapted for use on doors of the bodies o vehicles, such as are employed in the delivery of merchandise, and will serve to prevent rattling of the doors with a consequent increase'in the durability and eiiiciency of the latter.-

The invention consists in thel novel con-l struction, adaptation and combination of parts as will be hereinafter described and claimed. l

In the accompanying drawings: Fi-gure 1 is a front elevational view of our improved hasp fastener applied .to aV pair of doors; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are detail'vertical views to lenlarged scales, through 3 3 and 4 4 of'F ig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the spring element shown detached.

The reference numeral 6 represents a frame for an opening as at the rear end of an auto delivery car.

A pair of doors designated by 7 and 8 are connected to said frame by hinges 9 and at. the meeting ends, one of the doors, as 8, is provided with a protruding strip 10 adapted to overlap the other door. According to the present invention, a staple 26 provided on one ofthe doors is engageable by a cam element of a locking bar 20 which is pivotally connected to the other of said I doors. The supporting member 11, or spring member. as it will be hereinafter designated, is formed with a loop 12 at one end to receive a pivotal supporting staple 15 and has an outwardly bowed portion 18 adjacent to the other end 19. The portion at or near the end 19 is made fiat and in alinement with the cleat or strip 10 when in the position in which itis shown by full lines in Fig. 2. A shoulder 16 is provided in the loop so as to engage against the staple 15 to prevent the parts 11 and 20 being swung farther back-than that in which the referred to parts are indicatedl by broken lines 111 and 201 in Fig. 2. The lock bar 2O is pivoted to the Hat portion 17 of the memberll by means of a headed pin 21 and is provided with an inclined end 22 adapted to engage with the inclined shoulder 14 of said member to prevent the lock bar from dropping downbelow the horizontal. The lock bar 20 may be provided with a curved portion 23 engageable with the bowed portion 18 of the spring member, and terminates in a handle 24 from which extends a downwardly directed cam shaped locking element 25 that is adapted to engage within the staple 26 of door 8. The bar 2 0and the locking element 25 serve as a hook which is releasably secured by the locking or bill element engaging, as explained, in the staple and may be provided with a hole 27 to receive a padlock (not shown).

In order that the lockbar will not interfere with the member 11 when the former is lowered into engaging position, the contact portion 18 and tip 19 of the spring member 11' are preferably tapered toward the upper edge thereof,ysee Fig. 3. When in use the device Apresents the appearance shown in F ig, 1. When the doors are to be opened, the operatorY grasps the handle 24 raises the lock bar 20 into a position as indicated by broken lines inFig. 1, Iand then turns the spring to secure the door or doors. When in the closed position, it is to be noted that the curved portion 23 of the lock bar maintains a pressure on the contact portion 18 ofA the spring element and the tip 19 of the latter is held lirmly in contact with the cleat 10, thus rigidly holding the doors 7 and 8 closed and preventing rattling and consequent Wear due -to relative movement between the doors.

@bviously the device would operate in practically the same manner if a rigid support were substitutedin place of either of the doors. i

What We claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hasp fastener comprising a spring member adapted to be pivotally connected with a door, a lock bar pivoted `to said spring member, and means for detachably connecting said lock bar with another door and impart a pressure which will be exerted through the medium of said spring member on said doors. f

2. A hasp fastener comprising a spring member adapted to be pivotally secured from one end thereof to a door and having a tip portion adapted to engage With and press against the door, a lock bar'pivotally connected to said spring member and engageable with the latter intermediate its length, a locking element provided on the outer end of said bar, and means engageable by said locking element to exert a pressure lthrough the medium of said spring member for securing the door in its closed position.

3. A hasp fastener comprising a spring member adapted to be hingedly secured to a door, said spring member being provided with a shoulder engageable With said staple to limit the horizontal movement of said spring member with respect to said door, a locking bar pivoted to said spring member, and means for engaging said locking bar in a support.

4. Ahasp. fastener comprising a spring member having a` curved central portion, a locking bar pivotally secured to said spring member and at one side of said curved por. tion, a locking element on the outer side thereof, and means engageable with said locking element to cause the locking bar to exercise a lateral thrust against the curved portion of said spring member.

5.?A hasp fastener comprising a spring member having a curved central portion, an inclined shoulder provided on said spring member, a locking bar pivotally secured at one end to said spring member and having an inclined end adapted to engage the aforesaid shoulder to limit the downward movement thereof, a lock element on lthe outer end of said bar, and means engageable with the lock element.

n6. The combination with a pair ofsWinging doors, of a spring member hingedly connected to one of said doors to swing in a plane at right angles thereto, said spring member being curved outwardly to form a contact portion and terminating in a door engaging tip portion, means for limiting the swinging movement of said spring member with respect to the associated door, a

lock bar pivotally secured to said springl member and having a lock element on its outer end and means secured to the other of said doors and engageable with 'the vlock element for rendering said spring member operative to secure both doors.

7. In combination with a door, of a hasp fastener comprising locking member and a spring member connected to ether for relative vertical movements, said locking member being provided at its free end with a cam shaped element, means for hingedly supporting said spring member to. enable the latter to be swung with the locking member in a horizontal direction, and means engageable by the aforesaid cam element whereby the spring element is caused to press against the door.

8. A hasp fastener comprising a spring member hingedly connected to a support for substantially horizontal movements, a locking member pivotally connected yto the spring member for relative movements in a substantially vertical direction, said locking member being provided with a hook portion, and means engageable by said hook while the locking member is being swung down to afford a horizontal thrust against said spring member.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 27th day of July, 1916.

HOMER V. JUNGST. HARRY G. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

PIERRE BARNES, E. PETERSON. 

